{"id":299322,"date":"2024-02-02T09:09:05","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T08:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=299322"},"modified":"2024-02-02T09:09:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T08:09:08","slug":"malawi-cop29-frustration-rich-nation-parliaments-need-to-debate-our-climate-cash-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=299322","title":{"rendered":"Malawi COP29 Frustration: Rich Nation Parliaments Need to Debate OUR Climate Cash NOW"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Watts Up With That?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essay by Eric Worrall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like rich nations have nothing better to do than discuss than giving big climate handouts to poor nations which have a shameful corruption index score<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For Cop29 to succeed, rich nations must get their parliaments to agree more finance now <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published on 30\/01\/2024, 2:49pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rich nations always say they need their parliaments approval for climate finance at Cops \u2013 now is the time to start<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Evans Njewa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although 2024 has just begun, the coming months will determine if Cop29 will be a success and whether benefits will trickle down to vulnerable communities in developing countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cop29 summit in Baku in November will focus on climate finance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Government negotiators in the Global North always tell us that their ambition on finance depends on their parliaments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They stress that they have no mandate, or possibility to scale up funds, as parliaments will not approve. \u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, as parliamentarian debates about budgets and allocations begin early in the year, they need to act now.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Without more grant-based funding, our plans to adapt to climate change and cut emissions will not be implemented; our efforts to ensure green and sustainable growth and development will not be successful and our possibilities to address the growing threat of climate-related loss and damage will never occur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evans Njewa is the chair of the Least Developed Countries group and an official in Malawi\u2019s environment ministry<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more:\u00a0https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2024\/01\/30\/for-cop29-success-rich-nations-must-get-their-parliaments-to-agree-more-finance-now\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The author is \u201cchair of the Least Developed Countries group\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why are those countries so undeveloped?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malawi has lots of sunlight, good agricultural land and abundant rainfall in the wet season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there are problems in paradise. Transparency.org, which tracks global corruption, paints a bleak picture of Malawi corruption<\/a>. 72% of surveyed locals thought corruption had increased in the last 12 months. 28% of public service users admitted they had paid a bribe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the Heritage Index of Economic Freedom<\/a> :- Economic expansion remains fragile in the absence of a dynamic private sector. Malawi lags in competitiveness and promotion of the broad-based economic activity that is needed to reduce poverty. The poor quality of physical and legal infrastructure, made worse by the government\u2019s inefficiency, is a serious impediment to long-term economic development.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Somehow I doubt a plane load of climate cash would help improve this situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials like Evans Njewa should put their energy into fixing Malawi\u2019s domestic problems, to encourage more development, instead of demanding handouts from other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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